LETTERS  FROM 
PARKMAN  TO  SQUIER 


DON  c.  SErrz 


LETTERS  FROM  PARKMAN  TO  SQUIER 


LETTERS 


FROM 


FRANCIS  PARKMAN 


TO 


E.  G.  SQUIER 


WITH   BIOGRAPHICAL  NOTES  AND   A 
BIBLIOGRAPHY  OF  E.  G.  SQUIER 

BY 

DON  C.  SEITZ 


CEDAR  RAPIDS,  IOWA 
THE  TORCH  PRESS 
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CEDAR    RAPIDS 

IOWA 


EPHRAIM  GEORGE  SQUIER,  M.  A.,  F.  S.  A. 

1821-1888 

Member  of  the  Society  of  Antiquities  of  France; 
Royal  Society  of  Antiquities  of  Denmark;  Royal 
Society   of    Literature,    Great    Britain;    Archaeo- 
logical Institute  of  London ;  American  Ethnologi- 
X     cal  Society;  Academy  of  Natural  History  of  Phila- 
^    delphia;  President  of  the  Anthropological  Insti- 
S    tute  of   New  York;   Charge  d'Afifaires,   Central 
America,  April  2,  1849,  to  September  13,  1850; 
Member  Mixed  Commission  under  Claims  Con- 
vention of  Jan.   12,   1863,  between  United  States 
"^  and  Peru,  July  17  to  Nov.  27,  1863;  Consul  for 
g   Honduras   in   New   York,    1869;   Editor   Leslie's 
^  Weekly,  etc.,  etc. 


:i2.iii)o 


TO  THE  MEMORY  OF 

FRANK  SQUIER 

1 840- 1 908 


INTRODUCTORY 

THIS  handful  of  letters  from  Francis  Park- 
man  to  E.  G.  Squier  represents  the  remains 
of  a  correspondence,  covering  a  relationship 
of  more  than  thirty  years,  between  the  historian  and 
the  scientist  and  explorer.  Mr.  Squier  carried  on 
an  extensive  correspondence  with  many  of  the  great 
minds  of  the  last  century,  beginning  with  Hum- 
boldt. This,  with  the  exception  of  the  Parkman 
letters,  was  deposited  in  the  Library  of  Congress  in 
1908  by  the  late  Frank  Squier,  of  Brooklyn,  New 
York,  his  younger  brother,  who  acted  as  his  execu- 
tor. 

Ephraim  George  Squier  was  born  in  the  town  of 
Bethlehem,  Albany  county,  New  York,  June  17, 
1 82 1,  sixth  in  line  of  descent  from  Samuel  Squier, 
who  was  the  friend  and  auditor  of  Oliver  Crom- 
well, Lord  Protector  of  England,  and  later  his  first 
lieutenant.  Two  sons  of  Samuel  Squier,  Samuel 
and  Philip,  emigrated  to  America  after  the  Restora- 
tion, and  settled  for  a  time  in  Boston,  removing 
thence  to  Connecticut.  Here  the  family  made  a 
place  and  a  name  for  itself.  Philip  Squier  the 
second,  great-grandfather  of  E.  G.  Squier,  was  an 
officer  under  Wolcott  in  the  Colonial  expedition 
against  Louisburg,  and  his  son  Ephraim  of  Ash- 


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ford,  Windham  county,  was  an  active  factor  in  the 
American  Revolution.  He  was  second  in  command 
to  Colonel  Knowlton  at  Bunker  Hill,  and  com- 
manded a  company  in  the  Connecticut  regiment 
that  followed  Benedict  Arnold  through  the  woods 
of  Maine  to  Quebec,  and  took  part  in  Montgom- 
ery's luckless  assault. 

With  what  was  left  of  this  same  regiment,  he 
followed  Arnold  again  at  Stillwater  in  that  famous 
charge  that  altered  the  fortune  of  the  day  and  led 
to  the  surrender  of  Burgoyne.  Putnam,  Parsons, 
and  Webb  were  his  friends,  and  he  was  a  trusted 
agent  on  more  than  one  difficult  detail  from  Gen- 
eral Washington  himself.  He  served  until  the  end 
of  the  war,  and,  returning  to  his  farm,  lived  until 
he  had  passed  his  ninety-seventh  year  in  1842. 

Joel  Squier,  father  of  E.  G.  Squier,  was  a  Meth- 
odist clergyman,  and  the  income  of  a  wandering 
minister  of  that  faith  did  not  permit  much  outlay 
for  tuition,  so  the  boy  educated  himself  between 
periods  of  farm  labor  and  attended  such  schools 
as  the  rural  districts  afforded.  He  became  a  teach- 
er first  and  then  qualified  as  a  civil  engineer, 
but  the  panic  period  of  i837-'38-'39  rendered  this 
occupation  unprofitable.  He  turned  to  literary 
work  and  in  1841  became  a  special  writer  on  the 
newspapers  at  Albany,  and  as  his  first  independent 
venture  edited  "The  Poets'  Magazine;  a  Repository 
of  Original  and  Selected  American  Poetry."  But 
two  numbers,  April  and  May,  1842,  were  issued. 


INTRODUCTORY  ii 

There  was  at  the  time  a  considerable  agitation 
for  prison  reform,  the  organ  of  which  was  The 
New  York  State  Mechanic.  Mr.  Squier  wrote 
vigorously  for  the  cause  and  soon  became  practi- 
cally editor  of  the  paper.  He  also  wrote  many  of 
the  documents  prepared  by  the  State  Mechanics' 
Association  to  influence  public  sentiment  regarding 
prison  conditions,  which  eventually  accomplished 
solid  results  in  doing  away  with  abuses.  He  also 
organized  branch  Mechanics'  Associations  through- 
out the  state  and  caused  them  to  play  an  important 
part  on  the  political  side  of  the  work. 

His  success  deprived  him  of  employment.  The 
cause  won,  the  Association  disbanded.  The  Brit- 
ish occupation  of  Canton  aroused  interest  in  China, 
and  he  wrote  his  first  book- a  compilation  of  facts 
about  the  Celestial  Kingdom.  In  1844  he  estab- 
lished the  Journal  at  Hartford,  Connecticut,  with 
"Henry  Clay,  one  first,  one  last  and  only  choice," 
as  a  platform  in  the  great  Whig  campaign  of  that 
year.  He  not  only  edited  the  paper,  but  reorgan- 
ized and  revivified  the  party  in  the  state  with  such 
skill  that  Van  Buren's  trained  battalions  were  rout- 
ed. The  defeat  of  Clay  in  the  nation  disheartened 
Mr.  Squier's  Whig  backers  and  he  left  Hartford  in 
1845,  to  become  editor  of  the  Scioto  Gazette,  pub- 
lished at  Chillicothe,  Ohio. 

Here  his  first  scientific  aspiration  took  form.  The 
ancient  mounds  of  the  Ohio  caught  his  interest,  and 
the  leisure  of  a  weekly  newspaper  office  enabled 


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him  to  make  the  researches  in  company  with  Dr.  E. 
H.  Davis  that  in  due  time  culminated  in  that  rare 
and  valuable  volume,  Ancient  Monuments  of  the 
Mississippi  Valley,  the  first  publication  issued  by 
the  Smithsonian  Institution. 

In  1 846  Mr.  Squier  w^as  elected  clerk  of  the  Ohio 
House  of  Representatives  and  was  then  able  to  de- 
vote more  attention  to  science  and  exploration.  His 
contributions  to  the  literature  of  the  Smithsonian 
Institution  were  so  considerable  as  to  bring  him  to 
the  instant  notice  of  savants  here  and  abroad.  Al- 
bert Gallatin  became  his  intimate  friend  and  gave 
him  constant  encouragement.  Then  began  his  corre- 
spondence with  Humboldt  and  Jomard.  Humboldt 
wrote  of  him :  "With  Dr.  Morton's  Crania  Amer- 
icana, the  work  of  Mr.  Squier  constitutes  the  most 
valuable  contribution  ever  made  to  the  archaeology 
and  ethnology  of  America."  He  was  elected  to 
membership  in  the  learned  societies  and  became  at 
once  an  authority  upon  aboriginal  America  at  a  time 
in  the  middle  forties  when  "America"  did  not  ex- 
tend beyond  the  Mississippi  Valley  and  was  so  new 
that  the  study  of  antiquities  seemed  almost  amusing. 
Mr.  Squier  gathered  knowledge  for  the  world  and 
stored  it  with  infinite  care. 

From  the  aboriginal  monuments  of  the  west  he 
turned  to  those  of  New  York,  and  under  the  aus- 
pices of  the  Smithsonian  produced  Aboriginal 
Monuments  of  Neiv  York,  which  ranks  with  Lewis 
H.  Morgan's  League  of  the  Iroquois  in  preserving 


INTRODUCTORY  13 

the  scanty  relics  of  knowledge  concerning  the  red 
forbears  of  the  Empire  state. 

The  election  of  Gen.  Zachary  Taylor  as  Presi- 
dent in  1848  gave  the  Whigs  a  chance,  and  in  the 
distribution  of  offices  the  position  of  Charge 
d'Afifaires  in  Central  America  was  given  to  Mr. 
Squier,  April  2,  1849.  The  Whigs  rather  prided 
themselves  on  favoring  men  of  letters.  Washing- 
ton Irving  was  sent  to  Spain  after  having  indorsed 
Squier  for  Central  America.  Other  indorsers 
were  Prescott,  the  historian  of  Mexico ;  Sparks,  who 
edited  the  letters  of  Washington ;  Gallatin,  Edward 
Everett,  John  L.  Stephens,  himself  a  pioneer  ex- 
plorer in  Central  America;  H.  B.  Anthony,  of 
Rhode  Island,  long  a  dear  and  intimate  friend; 
Bradish,  Butler,  Trumbull,  and  Potter,  an  array  of 
supporters,  as  the  National  Intelligencer  remarked, 
"at  once  imposing  and  irresistible." 

Then  began  that  long  and  invaluable  relationship 
with  Central  and  South  America  that  has  since 
been  coined  into  volumes  of  standard  authority. 
The  tropics  made  a  lasting  impression  on  his  ob- 
serving mind;  nor  did  he  see  them  romantically 
or  with  the  eye  of  the  adventurer.  He  looked  be- 
neath the  verdure  and  the  sky  into  the  antiquities 
and  utilities  of  the  land,  heedless  of  discomfort  and 
with  untiring  energy,  until  he  knew  and  had  written 
down  his  knowledge. 

He  came  to  the  shattered  remains  of  what  had 
promised  to  be  a  prosperous  Central  American 


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unity.  The  patriot  Morazan  had  not  long  before 
been  driven  out  and  later  shot  by  the  half-breed 
Carrera.  Morazan  had  really  established  a  Unit- 
ed States  of  Central  America,  but  the  greed  of  the 
adventurer  overcame  patriotism  and  self-sacrifice. 
The  confederation  was  disrupted  and  returned  to 
its  former  parts,  but  Carrera  remained  for  more 
than  twenty  years  the  brutal  master  of  the  situation, 
guiding  affairs  from  his  stronghold  in  Guatemala. 
He  called  himself  president,  but  he  was  a  dictator- 
barefooted,  sullen,  and  savage.  With  all  the  mixed 
conditions  Mr.  Squier  came  into  quick  harmony, 
and  while  his  official  term  ended  September  13, 
1850,  unofficially  he  became  the  great  authority  on 
Central  American  afifairs,  and  remains  such  still 
in  his  published  works.  His  chief  activity  covered 
the  period  from  the  date  of  his  appointment  until 
he  saw  Walker,  the  filibuster,  buried  in  the  red- 
dened sands  at  Truxillo  in  i860. 

Mr.  Squier  had  profound  faith  in  the  possibili- 
ties of  material  development  in  Central  America - 
where  every  prospect  pleased  and  only  the  poli- 
ticians were  vile.  He  organized  the  Honduran 
Railroad,  exploited  a  canal  via  the  Nicaragua 
route,  wrote  clearly  of  the  valuable  native  prod- 
ucts, and,  in  short,  was  the  exponent  of  the  dis- 
tracted little  land. 

The  great  war  between  the  states  shut  out  Amer- 
ican interest  in  externals,  and  Mr.  Squier  became 
the  editor  of  Frank  Leslie's  Illustrated  Weekly^ 


INTRODUCTORY  15 

when  that  pictorial  was  at  the  height  of  its  success, 
and  remained  in  the  employ  of  the  house  of  Leslie 
in  editorial  positions  until  illness  incapacitated  him 
for  active  labor,  about  seven  years  before  his 
death.  He  died  in  Brooklyn,  New  York,  April 
17,  1888. 

The  bibliography  appended  to  this  volume  is  a 
better  story  of  Mr.  Squier's  life  than  any  biographer 
can  write.  He  put  his  career  into  his  books.  The 
volumes  have  become  rare,  and  are  treasured  by 
collectors  and  libraries. 

D.  C.  S. 


THE  LETTERS,  1849- 1870 


(No  date,  but  evidently  early  in  1849) 

DearSquier: 

I  am  much  obliged  to  you  for  the  pamphlet  which 
you  sent  me  with  a  sketch  of  the  New  York  earth 
works.  I  read  it  with  much  interest,  but  hope  be- 
fore long  to  see  a  fuller  account  embracing  all  the 
plans,  etc.  I  was  glad  to  see  the  Delaware  picture 
writing  in  the  last  American  Review.  By  this 
time,  I  suppose  you  have  changed  your  quarters  as 
you  told  me  you  were  going  to  do,  on  the  morning 
when  I  smashed  a  bottle  of  Elliott's  damnable  com- 
pound in  your  room.  A  friend  of  mine,  a  Mr. 
Charles  Norton,^  who  is  going  to  review  you  in  the 
next  North  American,  is  coming  to  New  York  and 
will  call  on  you.  He  takes  an  interest  in  ethnology, 
and  though  I  do  not  think  your  ideas  and  his  are  in 
all  respects  congenial -as  his  education  has  been 
rather  of  thestrict  and  precise  sort-yet  you  will  find 
him  a  most  capital  fellow  and  well  able  to  appre- 
ciate all  that  you  have  done.  Who  published  Den- 
onville's  Expedition?  Was  it  Marshall?  If  so  T 
want  to  know  him. 

Believe  me. 

Very  faithfully  yours, 

F.  Parkman 

iProf.  Charles  Eliot  Norton. 


20       LETTERS  FROM  PARKMAN  TO  SQUIER 

II 

(On  the   publication  of  the   Oregon   Trail   and    the   beginning  of   Mr. 
Parkman's  historial   work) 

Boston,  March  15,  1849 
Dear  Squier: 

I  beg  you  will  excuse  my  being  silent  so  long, 
which  was  in  consequence  of  being  a  good  deal  be- 
low par  in  point  of  health  as  well  as  an  occurrence 
of  some  interest  to  myself  which  has  just  taken  place. 
I  was  very  sorry  that  I  did  not  hear  from  Copw^ay^ 
until  he  was  on  the  point  of  leaving.  I  liked  him 
very  much  and  wanted  to  see  more  of  him.  Some 
time  ago,  I  told  Putnam  to  give  you,  in  my  name, 
a  copy  of  the  redoubtable  Oregon  Trail,  which  is 
just  out.  This  is  rather  an  awkward  way  of  con- 
veying it  to  you  and  perhaps  after  all  you  have  not 
got  it  yet -if  so,  pray  drop  in  upon  Putnam  the 
next  time  you  pass  there.  I  have  been  writing  a 
little,  but  only  a  very  little.  Let  me  have  the  par- 
ticulars of  the  Guatemala  scheme -that  is,  what 
position  it  is  you  are  anxious  to  reach,  as  it  is  possi- 
ble that  I  may  be  able  to  make  some  influence  in 
your  favor.  Norton  wrote  me  that  he  had  seen 
you.  I  think  you  will  find  him  an  acquaintance 
worth  having,  not  only  as  a  good  fellow  but  because 
he  stands  among  a  set  of  literary  men  whose  opin- 
ions and  influence  are  worth  having.  The  unfor- 
tunate Trail  seems  likely  to  be  choked  under  a  mass 

^George  Copway,  the  Ojibway  historian  and  poet. 


LETTERS  FROM  PARKMAN  TO  SQUIER       21 

of  California  books.     If  you  can  give  it  a  push, 
you  will  do  it  a  favor. 

I  am  at  present  grubbing  into  the  history  of  the 
collision  of  the  French  and  English  in  America, 
and  tracing  the  effects  which  resulted  therefrom  to 
the  Indian  tribes,  all  this  being  considered  as  a  sort 
of  introduction  to  the  history  of  the  subsequent 
wars  among  the  Indians  themselves. 

I  think.  I  shall  be  in  New  York  before  the  Spring 
is  out,  and  till  then, 

Believe  me. 

Very  faithfully, 

F.  Parkman,  Jr. 

Ill 

(Written  after  receiving  notice  of  Mr.  Squier's  appointment  to  his  post 
in  Central  America) 

Boston,  May  13TH,  1849 
My  DEAR  Squier: 

I  was  very  glad  indeed  to  get  a  line  from  you 
before  your  departure  for  the  land  of  El  Vomito, 
not  however,  that  I  augur  for  you  any  unpleasant 
visitations  from  that  source.  I  have  heard  of  your 
visitation  from  the  measles,  an  infantile  weakness, 
of  which  I  should  hardly  have  suspected  you.  This 
infliction  together  with  the  cares  of  science  and  of 
state  which  are  weighing  upon  you,  would  be 
enough  to  smash  any  man  who  was  not  bound  to 
go  ahead.     This  latter  destiny  is,  I  flatter  myself, 


22       LETTERS  FROM  PARKMAN  TO  SQUIER 

the  one  marked  out  for  you,  though  I  infer  that 
you  will  have  need  of  all  your  grit,  as  I  am  led  to 
presume  that  Uncle  Sam  has  burdened  your  shoul- 
ders with  a  greater  load  than  you  had  bargained 
for: -that  you  will  carry  it  through  in  safety,  I 
do  not  doubt,  nor  do  I  doubt  that  the  result  of 
success  will  be  such  as  to  repay  you  for  all  your  toil 
and  trouble.  Only  don't  let  Politics  swallow  up 
science.  They  will  pull  together  well  enough  and 
make  a  strong  team -one  however,  which  will  re- 
quire a  hand  as  strong  as  yours  to  manage  it.  I 
hope  you  will  find  an  opportunity  to  send  me  a  line 
now  and  then,  though  I,  poor  devil,  am  compelled 
to  lay  disabled  in  port,  while  others  are  prosper- 
ously voyaging  on  the  high  seas.  Damn  the  luck- 
perhaps  my  turn  will  come  some  time. 

I  have  sent  your  letter  to  Mr.  Marshall  and  am 
expecting  his  answer.  Norton  sails  in  a  week  or 
two,  to  my  great  regret.  I  hope  that  the  map  of 
the  Iroquois  country  is  not  spoiled  by  your  depar- 
ture, if  so,  I  shall  mourn  over  it  as  a  lamentable 
casualty.  Perhaps  by  the  time  your  volume  on  the 
Guatemala  is  out,  I  shall  come  down  with  a  narra- 
tive of  backwood  scrimmages -but  that  all  depends 
on  my  luck.  My  eyes  I  don't  mind.  I  can  get 
along  without  them,  but  to  have  one's  brains  stirred 
up  in  a  mush,  may  be  regarded  as  a  decided  obstacle 
in  the  way  of  intellectual  achievements.  Give  me 
the  tithe  of  a  chance,  and  I  will  do  it. 


LETTERS  FROM  PARKMAN  TO  SQUIER       23 

If  I  can  do  anything  for  you  here,  you  will  of 
course,  make  use  of  me,  and  meanwhile  believe  me, 
with  the  warmest  wishes  for  your  success. 
Very  faithfully  yours, 

F.  Parkman,  Jr. 

IV 

Boston,  Oct.  15,  1849 
My  DEAR  Squier: 

I  heartily  congratulate  you  on  the  reception  you 
met  with  at  Leon,  and  particularly  on  the  distin- 
guished success  of  your  negotiations  and  a  pledge 
of  future  success,  should  your  ambition  lead  you 
deeper  into  Politics.  The  affair  is  much  talked 
of  here  and  seems  to  excite  very  general  attention 
everywhere  as  indeed  it  necessarily  must.  As  for 
those  fellows  who  have  obligingly  taken  the  king- 
dom of  "Musquetia,"  under  their  protection,^  I 
trust  you  will  lose  no  opportunity  of  snubbing  them 
on  every  possible  occasion.  I  am  very  glad  that 
your  political  work  has  not  suspended  your  re- 
searches and  I  shall  look  anxiously  for  a  forthcom- 
ing volume  on  the  Antiquities  of  Central  America. 
As  for  me,  I  am  rather  inclined  to  envy  you  less 
for  your  success  and  your  prospects,  than  for  your 
power  of  activity.  From  a  complete  and  ample 
experience  of  both,  I  can  bear  witness  that  no 
amount  of  physical  pain  is  so  intolerable  as  the 
position  of  being  stranded  and  doomed  to  be  rot- 

^The  seizure  of  Tigre  by  the  British,  which  made  some  stir. 


24       LETTERS  FROM  PARKMAN  TO  SQUIER 

ting  for  year  after  year.  However,  I  have  not 
abandoned  any  plan,  which  I  have  ever  formed  and 
I  have  no  intention  of  abandoning  any  until  I  am 
made  cold  meat  of.  At  present  1  am  much  better 
in  health  than  when  you  last  saw  me,  and  I  do  not 
suffer  from  that  constant  sense  of  oppression  on  the 
brain  which  then  at  times  annoyed  me  beyond  en- 
durance. I  find  myself  able  to  work  a  little  al- 
though my  eyes  are  in  a  totally  useless  state,  and 
excessively  sensitive.  The  eyes  are  nothing  to  the 
other  infernal  thing  which  now  seems  inclined  to 
leave  me  alone,  good  riddance  to  it;  so  I  contrive 
to  dig  slowly  along  by  the  aid  of  other  people's 
eyes,  doing  the  work  more  thoroughly  no  doubt, 
and  digesting  my  materials  better  than  if  I  used 
my  own.  I  have  just  obtained  the  papers  which 
were  wanting  to  complete  my  collection  for  the 
illustrative  work  on  the  Indians  which  I  told  you 
about.  The  manuscripts  amount  to  several  thou- 
sand pages.  I  am  inclined  to  think  the  labor  of 
collecting  them  might  have  been  better  bestowed, 
but  I  was  a  boy  when  I  began  it,  and  at  all  events 
it  will  be  done  thoroughly. 

The  commission  which  you  charged  me  with 
will  be  duly  attended  to,  at  an  early  opportunity. 
Charley  Norton  is  I  suppose  by  this  time  at  Ma- 
dras. I  saw  his  family  the  other  day.  They  have 
several  times  spoken  about  you  and  will  be  very 
glad  to  hear  of  your  luck.  Mr.  Gallatin's  death 
is  a  blow  to  the  Ethnologicals,  and  they  will  hardly 


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find  such  a  rallying  point  as  his  house  was. 

If  I  can  serve  you  in  any  way  of  writing  or  oth- 
erwise, I  wish  you  would  let  me  know  and  I  shall 
be  very  glad  to  do  anything  in  my  power.  By 
some  practice  I  have  caught  the  knack  of  dictating 
and  find  it  as  easy  as  lying.  Drop  me  a  line  when 
you  get  a  chance,  and  believe  me. 

Very  truly  yours, 

F.  Parkman 

V 

Boston,  Nov.  i8th,  1849 
My  DEAR  Squier: 

Your  last  note  reached  me  a  few  days  ago,  and  I 
shall  certainly  keep  a  bright  look  out  for  the  pub- 
lications which  will  throw  any  further  light  on 
your  proceedings.  I  was  in  New  York  the  other 
day  where  I  saw  at  the  Historical  Society's  rooms, 
a  number  of  boxes  of  antiquities  marked  with  your 
name  and  apparently  sent  there  by  Mr.  Cotheal. 
Your  communications  published  in  the  Literary 
World  and  elsewhere  have  attracted  considerable 
attention.  Copway  has  recently  come  back  from 
his  Western  tour  and  is  now  in  New  York  pre- 
paring to  publish  the  Traditional  History  of  the 
Ogibhewas,  and  a  collection  of  their  legends. 

Between  you  and  me  I  shall  have  no  great  faith 
in  them.  Copway  is  endowed  with  a  discursive 
imagination  and  facts  grow  under  his  hands  into  a 
preposterous  shape  and  dimensions.     His  scheme 


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of  settling  the  Indians  is  a  flash  in  the  pan,  or  rath- 
er he  has  no  settled  scheme  at  all,  and  never  had 
any.  I  had  a  letter  from  him  dated  at  Council 
Blutfs  which  was  I  believe  the  farthest  limit  of 
his  travels.  He  had  a  great  deal  to  say  about  the 
forest  gentlemen,  nature's  noblemen,  etc.,  but  very 
little  about  the  regeneration  of  the  tribes. 

I  enclose  you  a  paragraph  containing  an  account 
of  some  remarkable  discoveries  in  the  Navahoe 
country  which  was  once  as  I  remember  the  field 
of  your  own  proposed  researches,  and  where  a  vast 
deal  doubtless,  yet  remains  to  be  discovered.  You 
will  be  rather  surprised  to  hear  that  Hoffman, 
poor  devil,  became  engaged  to  Schoolcraft's^ 
daughter  and  took  a  fancy  into  his  head  that  he 
was  bound  in  consequence  to  avenge  the  wrongs 
of  the  Red  race  against  the  white  men.  This  idea 
got  such  possession  of  him  that  his  friends  rightly 
concluded  him  to  be  mad  and  the  match  was  bro- 
ken off.  He  then  threw  up  his  Government  em- 
ployment and  has  not  resumed  it,  in  fact  he  is  hard- 
ly capable.  He  made  a  desperate  effort  to  act  on 
Mrs.  Emberg's  advice  and  after  such  a  result,  it  is 
not  likely  that  he  will  try  again. 

The  Nortons  desire  to  be  kindly  remembered  to 
you,  the  ring  was  smilingly  accepted  and  I  am  re- 
quested to  return  many  thanks  for  the  gift.  Mrs. 
Norton  has  been  very  dangerously  ill,  but  seems 

1  Henry  R.   Schoolcraft 


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now  in  a  fair  way  to  recover,  especially  since  two 
days  ago  letters  were  received  from  Charley,  an- 
nouncing his  safe  arrival  in  Madras. 
Believe  me. 

Very  truly  your  friend, 

F.  Parkman,  Jr. 
by  C.  S.  B. 

P.S.-When  you  write  me  again,  which  I  hope 
will  be  very  soon,  tell  me  what  was  the  upshot  of 
your  plan  of  publishing  in  conjunction  with  Mr. 
Marshall,  a  map  of  the  Iroquois  country.  I  hope 
you  have  not  abandoned  it.  Mr.  M.  has  been  de- 
livering a  lecture  touching  on  early  Jesuit  mis- 
sions, etc.,  which  has  been  published  in  The  Wes- 
tern Literary  Messenger  and  of  which  he  sent  me 
a  copy.  O'Callaghan's  first  volume  of  the  docu- 
mentary history  of  New  York,  is  full  of  interest. 
You  remember  that  you  asked  me  by  what  author- 
ity it  is  stated  that  the  Iroquois  secured  their  pali- 
sades by  an  embankment  of  earth  thrown  up  around 
the  basis.  By  one  of  my  notebooks,  I  find  that  the 
fact  is  mentioned  by  Cartier  in  his  account  of  the 
village  of  Hochelaga  which  probably  belonged  to 
the  Hurons  and  not  the  Five  Nations  though  I 
have  no  doubt  that  the  military  structures  of  both 
were  on  the  same  plan. 


28       LEl^ERS  FROM  PARKMAN  TO  SQUIER 

VI 

(To  Mr.  Squicr  in  Central  America) 

Boston,  April  2,  1850 
My  DEAR  Squier: 

The  spirit  moves  me  to  write  from  having  read 
your  personal  narrative,  sent  to  the  Ethnological 
Society -a  document  for  which  by  the  way,  I  owe 
you  a  grudge,  as  it  kindled  in  me  a  burning  desire 
to  get  among  fevers  and  volcanoes,  niggers,  In- 
dians and  other  outcasts  of  humanity,  a  rest- 
less fit  which  is  apt  to  seize  me  at  inter- 
vals and  which  you  have  unmercifully  aggra- 
vated. I  hear  frequent  mention  of  the  idols, 
extremely  curious  and  unspeakably  ugly,  which  you 
have  sent  to  Washington,  and  I  hope  some  day  to 
see  the  originals  of  those  whose  portraits  figure  in 
a  late  number  of  the  Literary  World.  For  my 
own  part,  I  am  usually  kept  a  prisoner  by  the  sen- 
sitive state  of  my  eyes,  which  only  permit  me  to 
come  out  like  an  owl  after  dark,  but  with  the  aid 
of  an  amanuensis  I  contrive  to  do  a  little  reading 
and  writing,  and  if  nothing  happens  will  probably 
finish  the  job  in  hand  within  a  year,  on  which  great 
occasion  you  will  receive  a  presentation  copy. 
There  is  nothing  here  of  much  importance  in  the 
literary  way.  Your  friend  Ticknor  has  come  down 
with  his  three  volumes  on  Spanish  literature.  Pick- 
ering's book  is  published  in  admirable  style  with 
fine  engravings.  It  has  been  noticed  in  the  Con- 
servative Review,  and  other  English  journals,  but 


LETTERS  FROM  PARKMAN  TO  SQUIER       29 

I  hear  that  the  method  and  arrangement  are  ob- 
jected to  as  obscure.  He  goes  for  the  derivation 
of  the  races  of  mankind  from  one  source.  Agassiz 
has  written  an  article  in  which  he  aims  at  proving 
that  both  men  and  animals  originated  from  differ- 
ent acts  of  creative  power  at  different  parts  of  the 
earth's  surface.  The  Orthodox  are  at  him  in  con- 
sequence, raising  a  great  outcry  about  impiety,  and 
attacking  him  with  texts  of  Scripture.  If  they 
could,  they  would  serve  him  as  the  Church  served 
Galileo. 

Norton  has  been  up  to  Delhi  and  is  now  prob- 
ably in  Egypt,  having  done  up  his  undertaking  in 
very  handsome  style.  He  will  probably  remain 
abroad  some  time  longer.  It  has  been  a  Winter 
of  excitement  here,  what  with  the  threats  of  dis- 
union and  the  consequent  panic  among  the  cotton 
spinners,  and  other  events  of  a  more  domestic  na- 
ture. Prof.  Webster  of  Cambridge,  whom  per- 
haps you  know,  was  sentenced  to  death  yesterday 
for  murdering  my  uncle  in  his  laboratory  at  the 
Medical  College,  in  order  to  prevent  the  exposure 
of  numerous  frauds  and  swindling  transactions  of 
which  he,  Webster,  had  been  guilty.  All  the  town 
has  been  in  commotion,  and  the  feeling  of  satis- 
faction at  the  result  of  the  trial  is,  I  believe  uni- 
versal. 

In  the  course  of  this  Spring  I  expect  to  become 
domiciliated  at  Milton,  within  a  few  miles  of  here, 
where  I  hope  some  day  or  other  to  welcome  you 


30       LETTERS  FROM  PARKMAN  TO  SQUIER 

as  my  guest.  Meanwhile  wishing  you  all  possible 
success,  and  an  escape  from  fevers,  snakes,  dirks, 
revolvers  and  all  other  evils  which  may  beset  your 
path,  I  remain  with  warm  regard, 

Very  faithfully  yours, 

F.  Parkman,  Jr. 

P.S.  I  had  a  letter  from  Schoolcraft  the  other 
day;  he  seems  to  be  very  busy  about  something 
but  what  the  deuce  it  was,  I  could  not  tell.  The 
second  volume  of  the  Documentary  History  of 
New  York  is  already  out. 

VII 

(No  date,  but  evidently  in  1850) 

Dear  Squier: 

I  hear  through  the  papers  that  you  are  in  New 
York.  If  you  come  to  Boston,  which  I  hope  you 
will,  you  will  find  me  established  in  a  domicile  of 
my  own  at  Milton,  where  I  hope  you  will  take  up 
your  quarters  during  your  stay.  The  advantages 
are,  country  air  and  a  railroad  conveyance  morn- 
ing and  night  and  through  the  day,  to  and  from  the 
City.  Go  to  the  Old  Colony  Depot  near  the  U.  S. 
Hotel  in  Boston,  and  get  a  ticket  for  Milton  Lower 
Falls,  and  when  there  inquire  for  my  house  which 
is  within  five  minutes  walk  of  the  Station  house. 

I  shall  finish  my  book  in  a  month  or  two.  The 
subject  is  wholly  new,  and  I  am  told  it  will  take. 


LETTERS  FROM  PARKMAN  TO  SQUIER       31 

Proposals  for  its  publication  are  now  before  the 
Harpers -two  vols.,  octavo. 

Come  in  person,  if  you  can,  and  if  not,  let  me 
hear  from  you. 

Yours  very  truly, 

F.  Parkman 

VIII 
Milton,  Aug.  5,  1850 
My  DEAR  Squier: 

Yours  of  the  21st  of  July  came  in  due  time. 
Stick  to  your  good  resolutions,  finish  your  book, 
despatch  your  filial  duties.  Do  up  Newport  and 
then  come  here.  At  Newport  you  will  find  half 
Boston,  including  some  old  acquaintances.  When 
you  come  bring  with  you  the  proofs  of  your  book, 
and  I  will  write  a  notice  of  it.  I  hope  it  is  about 
Central  America,  personal  experiences,  etc.  What 
the  deuce  has  set  our  friend  Bartlett  off  as  Com- 
missioner on  the  California  boundary?  The  Co- 
manches  will  make  soup  of  him  before  he  gets 
back.  Drop  me  a  line  to  tell  me  when  I  may  ex- 
pect you -the  sooner  the  better- and  believe  me. 

Yours  very  faithfully, 

F.  Parkman,  Jr. 

IX 

Milton,  Sept.  6,  1850 
My  DEAR  Squier: 

I  owe  the  Washingtonians  a  grudge  for  their 
scandalous  behavior  in  carrying  you  oflf  from  my 


32       LETTERS  FROM  PARKAIAN  TO  SQUIER 

expectant  eyes.  So  you've  given  up  Nicaragua. 
All  the  better,  I  fancy  for  yourself  and  for  your 
friends.  Four  years  among  Greasers  and  Indians 
with  a  touch  of  snakes.  Alligators  and  El  Vomito, 
would  be  unpalatable  to  the  best  stomached  antiqua- 
rian. I  don't  wonder  your  Artist  grew  homesick, 
more  especially  as  I  fancy  he  hadn't  much  leisure 
time  given  him  to  swallow  quinine  and  calomel. 

I  don't  despair  of  seeing  you  yet.  After  Octo- 
ber, by  the  way,  I  shall  be  in  town  where  you  will 
find  me  at  my  father-in-law's,  Dr.  Bigelow,  but  I 
hope  to  see  you  before  that  time  at  what  you  are 
pleased  to  call  my  classic  retreat. 

Yours  very  faithfully, 

F.  Parkman 
X 

Boston,  Feb.  i6,  1851 
My  dear  Squier  : 

I  received  your  book  yesterday- an  accident  pre- 
vented me  from  getting  it  sooner.  Many  thanks 
for  the  gift.  I  shall  try  to  do  it  justice  in  the 
Examiner  of  next  May,  with  some  reference  also 
to  your  former  book  with  which  I  see  a  great  part 
of  the  present  volume  is  closely  connected. 

You  are  ofif  I  suppose  next  month.  Write  and 
let  me  know  your  movements  if  you  are  not  too 
much  jammed  up  for  time.  I  am  now  in  the  hands 
of  the  devils. 

Yours  very  truly, 

Parkman 


LETTERS  FROM  PARKMAN  TO  SQUIER       33 

P.S.  If  you  happen  to  meet  the  Editor  of  the 
American  Review^  say  a  good  word  for  me -some- 
thing in  the  way  of  introduction.  I  may  have 
something  to  do  with  him  hereafter.  Thanks  for 
the  pamphlet  about  volcanoes,  and  for  the  portrait 
no  less.  The  latter  is  a  duplicate  but  so  much  the 
better. 

XI 
Boston,  April  30,  1851 
My  dear  Squier  : 

The  Serpent  Symbol  came  to  hand  a  few  days 
ago  through  Norton.  Many  thanks  for  it.  Thus 
far  I  know  nothing  of  its  interior  except  the  very 
captivating  pictures  of  snakes,  and  unseemly  phal- 
lic emblems  which  impress  me  with  a  desire  for 
further  information.  What  with  the  bustle  of 
moving  out  of  town,  and  the  temporary  discharge 
of  my  reader,  I  am  left  for  the  present  eyeless. 
The  reader,  however,  will  soon  resume  her  labors, 
when  I  propose  to  enlighten  her  mind  by  a  con- 
templation of  the  reciprocal  powers  of  nature  and 
the  superstitions  thereto  belonging.  I  send  you 
along  with  this  letter  a  copy  of  the  Examiner  in 
which  something  is  said  of  yourself  and  works. 

Do  you  stay  long  in  New  York?  I  shall  soon 
be  established  for  the  Summer  in  Brookline.  If 
you  come  this  way  you  know  how  to  find  me  and  a 
hearty  welcome. 

Yours  truly, 

F.  Parkman 


34       LEnTRS  FROM  PARKMAN  TO  SQUIER 

XII 

Boston,  May  14,  1851 
My  DEAR  Squier: 

Not  long  since,  I  met  Rev.  Mr.  Osgood,  pastor 
of  I  don't  exactly  know  what  church  in  New  York, 
who,  hearing  that  I  was  to  be  delivered  of  a  vol- 
ume, obligingly  offered  his  services  as  a  Wet 
Nurse  and  proposed  to  exhibit  the  book  at  a  meet- 
ing of  the  Ethnological  Society,  that  receiving 
their  approval,  it  might  figure  in  the  reports  of 
their  proceedings  and  thereby  gain  glory  and  re- 
nown. I  have  accordingly  sent  him  a  bundle  of 
the  proofs.  But  for  his  offer,  I  might  have  in- 
flicted them  upon  you,  and  you  owe  the  Reverend 
gentleman  thanks  for  having  saved  you  from  a 
bore.  If  you  have  any  curiosity  to  look  them  over, 
he  will  lend  them  to  you.  At  all  events  give  them 
your  vote  at  the  meeting,  and  when  you  chance  to 
meet  any  of  the  editors  with  whom  your  voice  is 
potential,  speak  a  word  in  their  ears  in  behalf  of 
the  forthcoming  Conspiracy  of  Pontiac. 

Among  the  tribulations  of  your  life,  you  have 
not  yet  numbered  the  crowning  evil  called  par 
excellence  "moving."  I  have  just  tasted  it  in  all 
its  bitterness  but  am  snugly  shaken  down  at  last, 
and  divide  my  time  between  antiquities,  agricul- 
ture, and  educating  a  dog.  My  box  is  in  Brook- 
line,  four  miles  from  town. 

F.  Parkman,  Jr. 


LETTERS  FROM  PARKMAN  TO  SQUIER       35 
XIII 

(On  the  publication  of  the  Conspiracy  of  Pontiac) 

Boston,  July  9,  1851 
My  dear  S.  : 

A  friend  of  mine  reading  my  proof  sheets,  vol- 
unteered to  write  a  preliminary  pufif.  I  assented 
and  told  him  to  enclose  it  to  you,  and  you  would 
put  it  in  the  Am.  Review^  or  some  other  Journal 
This  was  a  fortnight  ago.  Meeting  him  to-day  he 
told  me  that  he  had  already  manufactured  and 
sent  the  puf¥.  I  had  not  expected -he  being  a 
dilatory  gentleman,  such  prompt  execution,  and 
so  did  not  warn  you.  I  really  don't  care  whether 
the  thing  is  published  or  not  so  if  it  will  give  you 
the  least  trouble,  pray  let  it  alone,  enough  has  been 
done  already  to  answer  the  purpose.  If  it  is  quite 
in  your  way,  and  if,  in  reading  the  paper,  you  think 
it  will  serve  its  end  - 1  myself  have  not  seen  it  -  you 
can  give  it  to  your  old  friends  of  the  American- 
to  Ripley,  or  anybody  you  like.  Otherwise  fling 
it  into  the  fire. 

When  I  last  wrote,  I  had  not  seen  the  very  kind 
notice  in  the  International^  which  I  presume  to  be 
yours.  Be  assured,  I  highly  value  your  commen- 
dation-no man's  more  so -and  nothing  could  be 
more  acceptable  than  such  a  token  of  your  friend- 
ship. 

You  got  my  note  of  a  few  days  since?  I  hope 
you  will  find  it  worth  while  to  attend  to  the  hints 


36       LETTERS  FROM  PARKMAN  TO  SQUIER 

contained  in  it.  As  for  the  matter  I  have  been 
speaking  of,  it  is  not  of  a  farthing's  consequence.  If 
the  paragraph  is  published  at  all,  it  had  better  be  a 
month  hence  than  now.  "Pontiac"  won't  be  out 
till  September.  Some  delay  is  caused  by  waiting 
for  an  English  edition,  which  Bentley  is  to  father. 
Your  obliged  friend, 

F.  Parkman 

XIV 

Boston,  Sept.  12,  1851 
My  DEAR  Squier: 

I  have  just  sent  you  a  copy  of  my  book -Adams 
Express  care  of  Putnam.  When  will  your  own  ship 
be  launched?  I  saw  in  Norton's  Advertiser  or 
somewhere  else  that  you  would  be  ofif  again  this 
Fall  and  no  mistake  for  Central  America,  accom- 
panied by  an  Artist  who  I  hope  will  serve  you  bet- 
ter than  the  last.  In  regard  to  the  present  afifair, 
can  I  do  anything  for  you?  The  literary  gentle- 
man who  concocted  the  puff  of  which  I  wrote  to 
you,  has  marvelled  greatly  at  its  non-appear- 
ance at  which  his  vanity  is  touched.  I  pro- 
fess ignorance  as  to  what  has  become  of  it  and 
advise  him  to  a  diligent  examination  of  the  con- 
temporary New  York  papers.  Wherever  it  is  I 
doubt  it's  in  the  right  place ;  but  whether  you  threw 
it  into  the  grate  or  devoted  it  to  Cloacina  you  need 
not  tell  me,  for  I  expect  further  queries  before 


LETTERS  FROM  PARKMAN  TO  SQUIER       37 

long  and  prefer  to  retain  the  plea  of  ignorance. 
Give  me  a  hint  of  your  movements,  and  believe  me, 

Yours  very  truly, 

F.  Parkman,  Jr. 

P.S.  A  young  heiress  is  yawling  in  the  next 
room.     Mrs.  P.  quite  well. 

XV 

Boston,  Sept.  17,  1851 
My  DEAR  Squier: 

Yours  of  the  13th  came  to  hand  yesterday;  I 
commiserate  your  situation  and  wish  you  a  pros- 
perous deliverance.  Quill  driving  in  the  Tartarian 
weather  of  last  week  is  too  serious  a  matter  for  a 
joke  and  as  for  the  thirty  pages  of  proofs,  they  will 
serve  to  expiate  all  your  numerous  past  sins,  and 
form  a  handsome  balance  against  any  which  it  may 
please  you  to  commit  in  future.  I  think  Littell 
will  insert  extracts.  I  met  him  the  other  day  and 
with  your  matter  in  view,  dropped  a  hint  to  that 
effect,  so  send  along  your  sheets,  and  if  he  won't 
listen  to  reason,  I  will  find  some  editor  who  will. 

Being  just  out  of  one  scrape,  I  am  plunging  into 
a  worse  one.  "Pontiac,"  thank  Heaven,  is  off  the 
stocks.  When  the  next  will  be,  I  don't  know,  but 
suppose  my  hair  will  be  grey  first.  Go  to  work 
at  consulting  fifteen  hundred  books  in  five  different 
languages  with  the  help  of  a  school  girl  who  hard- 
ly knows  English  and  you  will  find  it  a  bore;  add 


:j2ijin) 


38       LETTERS  FROM  PARKMAN  TO  SQUIER 

to  this  the  infantile  music  in  the  next  room  and  you 
will  agree  that  my  iniquities  have  as  good  a  chance 
of  being  atoned  for  as  yours. 

Yours  very  faithfully, 

F.  Parkman 
P.S.     A  word  in  the  ear  of  the  American  Re- 
view would  not  be  amiss.     He  has  my  book.     Just 
give  him  a  hint  to  use  it  with  propriety. 

XVI 

Boston,  Sept.  20,  1851 
My  dear  S.  : 

Why,  the  deuce,  are  you  fagging  yourself  to 
death.  Take  a  trip  to  England  or  anywhere  else 
that  will  set  you  up.  Nature  has  made  you  tough 
as  a  pine  knot,  but  a  pine  knot  won't  stand  fire.  As 
for  the  matter  of  Pontiac,  clear  your  conscience  of 
that  business.  I  have  done  nothing  to  serve  you 
that  I  am  aware  of  more  than  you  have  done  for 
me,  and  if  I  had,  it  would  not  have  been  on  the  quid 
pro  quo  principle.  The  sheets  have  come  to  hand 
and  shall  be  submitted  to  Littell  on  Monday.  Per- 
haps I  shall  write  again  in  a  day  or  two,  until  then 
believe  me,  in  haste,       yours  truly, 

Parkman 
XVII 

Boston,  Oct.  3,  1851. 
My  DEAR  Squier: 

Will  you  stop  at  Duyckinck's  office  and  find  out 
for  me  whether  or  not  he  has  got  a  copy  of  Pontiac. 


LETTERS  FROM  PARKMAN  TO  SQUIER       39 

There  was  some  trouble  about  it  at  first -the  book 
didn't  reach  him  for  some  reason  or  other.  It  has 
been  forwarded  since  and  I  wish  you  would  find 
out  if  he  has  got  it  and  let  me  know;  for  as  his 
paper  is  silent  I  think  it  possible  that  it  may  have 
miscarried.  Littell  will  have  your  extract  in  his 
next  week's  number. 

Yours  very  truly, 

F.  Parkman 

XVIII 

Boston,  Nov.  3, 185 1 
MydearSquier: 

Let  me  congratulate  you  on  having  got  through 
with  your  book  which  I  hope  will  prove  a  Califor- 
nian  gold  mine.  With  respect  to  England,  I  was 
there  only  six  weeks,  seven  years  ago,  and  made  no 
acquaintances  except  travelling  ones,  who  by  this 
time  have  forgotten  me  as  I  have  them.  The  only 
man  I  know  in  London  who  can  do  anything  ex- 
cept invite  you  to  a  stififnecked,  white  cravated  din- 
ner party,  is  an  American  who  is,  or  has  been  con- 
nected with  the  British  Museum,  one  of  the  sort 
commonly  called  "smart  fellers"  with  a  consider- 
able knowledge  of  the  world,  a  great  knowledge  of 
books  and  libraries,  and  an  eye  to  the  main  chance. 
I  should  think  you  might  find  him  a  good  acquaint- 
ance. Possibly  you  know  him  already- his  name  is 
Henry  Stevens,^  but  in  case  you  don't  I  enclose  a 

1  Mr.  Stevens  lived  to  compile  a  remarkable  catalogue  of  the  Ameri- 
cana in  the  British  archives,  published  in  1903. 


40       LETTERS  FROM  PARKMAN  TO  SQUIER 

note  to  him.  I  don't  know  his  London  address,  but 
you'll  easily  find  it  by  inquiring  at  the  American 
Minister's  or  probably  at  Chapman's  book  store. 

As  for  Paris,  since  the  death  of  my  revered  Uncle 
who  dwelt  there,  and  who  was  truly  a  jewel  to  the 
bewildered  traveller,  I  can  think  of  no  acquaint- 
ance I  have  there  except  one  old  classmate,  a  good- 
natured  eccentric  fellow  who  walks  the  hospitals, 
and  to  whom  I  will  gladly  introduce  you  if  you 
think  it  worth  while. 

Can  you  take  care  of  a  parcel  as  big  as  an  octavo 
volume  to  be  delivered  to  Poussin,  late  French 
Minister  to  the  U.  S.  The  parcel  may  be  left  with 
Hector  Bossange,  the  Paris  book  seller.  I  am 
sorry  I  can't  do  more  for  you. 

Yours  very  truly, 

F.  Parkman 

P.S.  It  just  occurs  to  me  that  one  of  my  six 
score  of  cousins  and  a  good  whole  souled  fellow  is 
in  the  firm  of  Baring  &  Brothers.  It's  queer  enough 
that  I  didn't  think  of  him  before.  You'll  find  a 
line  to  him  enclosed. 


Here  follows  a  long  gap  in  the  correspondence 
as  preserved.  The  next  letter  bears  the  date  of 
i8s9. 


LETTERS  FROM  PARKMAN  TO  SQUIER       41 

XIX 

8  Walnut  St., 
Boston,  Aug.  15,  1859 
DearSquier: 

Yr.  Note  has  reached  me,  but  minus  the  pro- 
spectus wh.  it  seems,  has  miscarried,  but  wh.  may 
yet  turn  up.  I  can  proffer  no  farther  aid  than  the 
slight  one  of  requesting  a  place  for  my  name  on  the 
subscription  list.  I  have  lately  come  from  Europe, 
whither  I  hope  soon  to  return.  My  wife's  recent 
death,  with  other  causes,  has  of  necessity  changed 
my  scheme  of  life  for  a  time.  I  heard  of  your  mar- 
riage some  time  ago. 
With  all  good  wishes  for  your  plans,  believe  me, 

Yours  sincerely, 

F.  Parkman 

Here  is  another  break,  until  1866. 

XX 

Boston,  Jan.  18,  1866 
My  dear  Squier  : 

I  am  truly  glad  to  brighten  the  old  chains  again. 
I  had  read  of  your  shabby  treatment  in  respect  to 
the  Prescott  papers  and  have  ascribed  the  dog  in  the 
manger  way  in  which  they  are  held  to  the  influence 
of  Mrs.  Prescott  in  her  anxiety  to  taboo  whatever 
belonged  to  her  husband.  I  believe  that  they  be- 
long to  her  son-in-law  Lawrence,  who  on  other 
occasions,  has  acted  liberally.     Last  evening  I  saw 


42       LETTERS  FROM  PARKMAN  TO  SQUIER 

Judge  Lowell,  son  of  the  Trustee  of  the  Lowell 
Institute,  and  put  it  to  him  that  the  community  of 
the  Hub  were  entitled  to  hear  about  the  new  dis- 
coveries in  Peru  from  the  discoverer  himself,  and 
I  added  more  for  his,  Mr.  Lowell's  enlightenment. 
He  took  it  well  and  is  disposed  as  far  as  himself 
is  concerned  to  act  on  the  hint.  His  father,  the 
Trustee,  is  not  so  approachable,  and  has  his  pecu- 
liarities, so  that  I  must  wait  a  little  for  a  favor- 
able opportunity,  but  you  may  be  sure  that  I  shall 
not  let  it  slip.  If  you  do  not  lecture  here  it  will 
be  rather  worse  than  ridiculous,  in  fact  it  is  so 
that  you  have  not  been  called  here  already.  You 
may  rely  on  me  to  push  the  matter  all  I  can,  as 
much  for  the  sake  of  the  public  as  for  yourself. 

I  did  not  know  that  you  had  suffered  so  much 
in  your  eyes.  The  symptoms  being  what  they  were, 
you  were  very  fortunate  to  get  ofif  as  you  did.  I 
have  a  fellow  feeling  with  you  in  respect  to  *  *  *, 
who  nearly  blinded  me,  and  for  this  and  other  rea- 
sons hated  me  to  the  extent  of  his  capacity.  For 
myself  my  eyes  are  still  of  little  use  and  will  do 
their  work  for  only  a  few  minutes. 

I  have  sent  you  to-day  a  copy  of  the  Pioneers 
which  I  hope  that  you  and  Leslie  will  find  to  your 
liking.  Never  again  come  to  Boston  without  let- 
ting me  know.  In  summer  a  line  to  Jamaica  Plain 
will  bring  me  In  winter  I  am  to  be  found  at  No. 
50  Chestnut  St.  You  see  by  this  note  that  I  don't 
use  my  eyes  long  even  by  day,  my  reading  and 


LETTERS  FROM  PARKMAN  TO  SQUIER       43 

writing  are  mainly  vicarious -a  trouble  they  say, 
of  the  optic  nerve,  chronic  like  everything  else  that 
gets  hold  of  me.  What  has  shelved  me  so  long 
however,  and  deprived  mankind  of  the  benefit  of 
my  labors  has  been  in  the  nature  of  a  pressure  on 
the  brain,  which  had  to  be  humored,  lest  worst 
should  come  of  it.  This  and  the  optic  nerve  bus- 
iness being,  say  the  doctors,  in  the  same  box.  Now 
I  hope  with  all  my  heart,  that  you  are  out  of  the 
woods.  Pluck  is  a  good  thing  but  so  is  a  good 
carcass.  The  first  promotes  the  last,  when  backed 
with  discretion -a  quality  which  I  beg  to  commend 
to  you  in  respect  to  the  use  of  your  eyes,  and  so. 

Good  bye, 

F.  Parkman 
To  Hon.  E.  G.  Squier. 

XXI 

No.  50  Chestnut  Street, 
Boston,  Feb.  2,  1866 
My  DEAR  Squier: 

I  have  looked  over  the  photographs  with  great 
interest,  I  now  return  them.  I  have  had  two  con- 
versations with  Mr.  Lowell,  I  showed  him  the  pic- 
tures. He  is  interested  and  seems  favorably  dis- 
posed. He  says  that  he  shall  make  out  his  list  for 
the  next  series  of  courses  in  the  course  of  this 
month,  and  I  feel  confident  that  you  will  hear  from 
him.  If  not,  I  shall  set  others  upon  him  and  he 
will  not  cease  to  hear  your  name  till  he  comes  to 


44       LEIHTERS  FROM  PARKMAN  TO  SQUIER 

reason.     Mr.  Sparks  has  already  promised  to  write 
to  him  if  necessary. 

If  you  will  send  me  the  pictures  of  which  you 
speak,  I  can  use  them  to  your  advantage,  especially 
if  they  come  before  Wednesday  next.  A  brief  min- 
ute of  the  most  important  points  of  your  discoveries 
would  be  well. 

Thanks  for  the  Leslie.  Did  you  get  the  book  I 
sent  you?  ^^^^  faithfully, 

F.  P. 
To  Hon.  E.  G.  Squier. 

XXII 

Jamaica  Plain,  24TH  Oct.  '67 
My  dear  Squier  : 

Yours  of  the  17th  has  just  reached  me -for  it  is 
three  days  since  I  last  went  to  Boston.  I  am  truly 
glad  to  hear  of  your  return  in  good  condition  and 
"hard  at  work." 

I  have  had  two  letters  from  you,  which  came 
while  I  was  in  the  West.  When  I  got  them  I 
thought  it  more  than  probable  that  you  would  leave 
Paris  before  a  reply  could  reach  you  -  so  wrote  none. 

D'Avezais'  information  was  very  difficult  and 
useful.  I  have  since  had  a  letter  from  Margry. 
Your  Leslie^  with  a  notice  of  him  and  something 
about  Peru,  has  not  come.     Don't  let  me  lose  it. 

Many  thanks  for  your  kind  offices  in  the  matter 
of  the  Pioneers.  They  are  excellently  placed.  You 
will  get  the  Jesuits  by  mail  in  a  day  or  two.     The 


LETTERS  FROM  PARKMAN  TO  SQUIER       45 

introduction  is  ethnological -you  had  better  read 
it,  if  you  have  time,  the  rest  will  do  for  a  rainy 
Sunday  when  the  inclemency  of  the  weather  keeps 
you  from  church.  Some  of  the  Catholics  and  some 
of  the  Puritans  sputter  at  the  book -others  take  it 
very  kindly  only  regretting  that  the  heretical  author 
will  probably  be  damned.  Meanwhile  he  would 
be  gratified  to  have  his  book  known  to  the  great  host 
of  the  readers  of  L^j/iV.  How  about  Peru?  Is  the 
book  under  way?  With  best  remembrance  to  Mrs. 
Squier, 

Very  truly, 

PARKMAN 
XXIII 

Boston,  29TH  Feb.,  1868 
Dear  Squier: 

I  met  Ned  Dana  yesterday  who  told  me  that, 
about  the  time  of  Buchanan's  election,  being  with 
you  in  Paris,  he  saw  a  certain  French  gentleman,  a 
friend  of  yours,  who  said  that  he  had  a  collection 
of  papers  of  Montcalm  which  he  meant  to  send  to 
Prescott.  You,  like  a  good  fellow,  advised  him  to 
send  them  to  me -but  he  has  not. 

Dana  don't  remember  his  name.  Can  you  send 
it  to  me?  Dana  is  still  very  much  under  the  weath- 
er, and  suffers  greatly.  How  is  the  Peru  book?  Go 
ahead. 

Pray  remember  me  to  Mrs.  Squier. 

Very  truly  yours, 
#  F.  PARKMAN 


46       LETTERS  FROM  PARKMAN  TO  SQUIER 

XXIV 

Dear  Squier: 

I  have  looked  over  with  interest  your  pamphlet 
on  Peruvian  monuments/  and  hope  that  it  is  an  ear- 
nest of  the  greater  work  to  come.  Meanwhile  I 
add  it  to  my  collection  of  Squier's  miscellaneous, 
repeating  to  you  the  advice  which  I  constantly  bore 
my  French  correspondent  Margry-who  like  you 
has  a  mass  of  invaluable  material -publish  and 
keep  on  publishing. 

By  the  way,  has  the  name  of  the  man  with  the 
Montcalm  papers  ever  re-entered  your  memory? 
I  found  and  bagged  one  but  not  that  to  which  you 
alluded,  which  I  failed  wholly  to  trace. 

Very  truly  yours, 

PARKMAN 
50  Chestnut  St., 

5th  April  [1870] 

1  Observations  on  the  Geology  and  Archaology  of  Peru,  a  paper  read 
before  the  American  Geographical  Society. 


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Der  Centralamerikanische  Staat  Nicaragua  in  Bezug 
auf  sein  Volk,  seine  Natur  und  seine  Denkmaler.  Nebst 
einer  ausfiihrlichen  Abhandlung  iiber  den  projectirten  inter- 
oceanischen  Kanal.  Von  E.  G.  Squier  .  .  .  Ins  Deutsche 
iibertragen  von  Eduard  Hopfner  und  mit  einem  Vorworte 
begleitet  von  Carl  Ritter.  8vo,  pp.  xviii  and  570.  Maps  and 
plates.     Leipzig,  1854. 

Ancient  Peru  ;  its  People  and  Monuments  .  .  .  Vol.  vii, 
Harper's  Magazine.     1853. 

Ruins  of  Tenampua,  Honduras,  Central  America.  Pro- 
ceedings of  the  Historical  Society  of  New- York.  New- York, 
October,  1853. 

San  Juan  de  Nicaragua.  Vol.  x.  Harper's  Magazine. 
1854. 

Honduras  and  Guatemala.  To  the  Editors  of  the  National 
Intelligencer.     New- York,  1854. 


54       LETTERS  FROM  PARKMAN  TO  SQUIER 

Notes  sur  les  £tats  de  Honduras  et  de  San  Salvador, 
dans  rAmerique  Centrale,  par  M,  E.  G.  Squler,  Extrait  du 
Bulletin  de  la  Societe  de  Geographie,  8vo,  pp.  36.  Map. 
Paris,  L.  Martnet,  1855. 

Lettre  a  propos  de  la  Lettre  de  M.  Brasseur  de  Bour- 
BOURG  a  M.  Alfred  Maury,  Extrait  des  Nouv.  Ann.  des 
Voyages.     Paris,  J.  Bertrand,  December,  1855. 

Nicaragua;  an  Exploration  from  Ocean  to  Ocean.  Vol.  xi. 
Harper's  Magazine.      1855. 

Notes  on  Central  America,  particularly  the  States  of  Hon- 
duras and  San  Salvador:  their  Geography,  Topography,  Cli- 
mate, Population,  Resources,  Productions,  etc.,  etc.,  and  the 
proposed  Honduras  Interoceanic  Railway.  With  original 
map  and  illustrations.  8vo,  pp.  397.  5  maps,  1 1  plates.  New- 
York,  Harper  ^  Brothers,  1855;  also  London,  1856. 
It  was  translated  into  German  and  Spanish  as 

Die  Staaten  von  Central-Amerika,  insbesondere  Honduras, 
San  Salvador  und  die  Moskitokiiste.  Von  E.  G.  Squier.  In 
deutscher  Bearbeitung  herausgegeben  von  Karl  Andree.  i2mo, 
pp.  xlviii,  275.     Folded  plate.     Leipzig,  Carl  B.  Forck,  1856. 

Apuntamientos  sobre  Centro-America,  particularmente 
sobre  los  Estados  de  Honduras  y  San  Salvador;  su  Geograiia, 
Topografia,  Clima,  Poblaciones,  Riqueza,  Producciones,  etc., 
etc.,  y  el  propuesto  Camino  de  Fierro  de  Honduras.  Por 
E.  G.  Squier,  Antiguo  Ministro  de  los  Estados  Unidos  cerca 
de  las  Republicas  de  Centro-America;  traducidos  del  Ingles  por 
un  Hondureno,  Don  Leon  Alvarado.  8vo,  pp.  xii,  384. 
Maps  and  plates.  Paris,  Imprenta  de  Gustavo  Gratiot,  1856. 
Contains  Vocabulary  not  included  in  the  original. 

Honduras  Interoceanic  Railway.  Maps  and  plans.  New- 
York,  1854. 

Preliminary  Report  of  the  sanne. 

Honduras  Interoceanic  Railway.  Supplementary  Report. 
Pp.  32.     London,  Printed  by  Charles  Whittingham,  1856. 

Honduras  Interoceanic  Railway.    With  Appendix  con- 


BIBLIOGRAPHY  55 

taining  Report  of  Admiral  Fitzroy,  the  Charter  Treaties,  etc. 

Royal  8vo,  pp.  xvi,  lOO.     6  maps.     1857. 
Chemin  de  Fer  Interoceanique  de  Honduras,  Amerique- 

Centrale.     Rapport   de   E.   G.    Squier.     Svo,   pp.    57.     6 

maps.     New- York,  1855. 
Waikna;  or,  Adventures  on  the  Mosquito  Shore.     By  Samuel 

A.  Bard.     i2mo,  pp.  366.     New- York,  Harper  ^  Brothers, 

1855. 

The   Appendix   contains   an   Historical    Sketch   of   the    Mosquito 
Shore,  and  a  brief  Vocabulary  of  the  Mosquito  Language,  pp.  363-6. 
It  was  twice  reprinted  in  England,  with  the  titles  as  below: 
Waikna;  or,  Adventures  on  the  Mosquito  Shore.     By  Samue! 
A.  Bard.     i6mo,  pp.  188.     London,  Sampson  Low  &  Son, 
1856. 
Adventures  on  the  Mosquito  Shore.     By  Samuel  A.  Bard. 
i2mo,  pp.  310.     Map.     London,  James  Blackwood^  1856. 
It  was  reprinted   in  Australia,   and  translated   into   French   and 
German. 

Reprinted  also  in  Chicago  in  1888,  and  in  1891  by  T/ie  JVorthing- 
ton  Company,  New  York.     i2mo,  366  pages,  with  66  illustrations. 
Antiquities  of  New  Granada.     Translation  from  the  Span- 
ish of  a  Letter  addressed  by  M.  Velez  to  M.  Boussingault,  by 
Mr.  Squier.     Paris. 
Question  Anglo-Americaine  :     Documents  Officiels  echanges 
entre  les  Etats-Unis  et  I'Angleterre  au  sujet  de  I'Amerique 
Centrale  et  du  Traite  Clayton-Bulwer.     Svo,  pp.  225.     Map. 
Paris,  Stasson  et  Xavier,  1856. 
Compendia  de  la  Historia  Politica  de  Centro-America, 
escrita  en  Ingles  por  Mr.  E.  G.  Squier,  e  traducido  al  Caste- 
llano  por  un  Centro-Americano.     Pp.  vii,   114.     Paris,  Im- 
prenta  de  G.  Gratiot,  1856. 
Les  Indiens  Guatusos  du  Nicaragua.     Svo.     Paris,  1856. 

Nouvelles  Annales  des  Voyages. 
Les  Indiens  Xicaques  du   Honduras.     8vo.     Paris,  1858. 

Nouvelles  Annales  des  Voyages. 
Information  on  the  Coal  Mines  of  the  River  Lempa, 
Republic  of  San  Salvador,  Central  America.     London,  1856. 


56       LETTERS  FROM  PARKMAN  TO  SQUIER 

The  States  of  Central  America:  their  Geography,  To- 
pography, Climate,  Population,  Resources,  Productions,  Com- 
merce, Political  Organization,  Aborigines,  etc.,  etc.  Compris- 
ing Chapters  on  Honduras,  San  Salvador,  Nicaragua,  Costa 
Rica,  Guatemala,  Belize,  the  Bay  Islands,  the  Mosquito 
Shore,  and  the  Honduras  Inter-Ooeanic  Railway.  With 
numerous  original  maps  and  illustrations.  (An  enlarged 
edition  of  the  "Notes  on  Central  America"  published  first  in 
1855.)  8vo,  pp.  782.  5  maps  and  8  plates.  New- York, 
Harper  &  Brothers,  1858. 

Visit  to  the  Guajiquero  Indians.  Vol.  xix,  Harpers 
Magazine.      1 859. 

Volcanoes  of  Central  America.  Vol.  xix.  Harper's  Mag- 
azine.    1859. 

Nicaragua:  Its  People,  Scenery,  Monuments,  Resources, 
Condition,  and  proposed  Canal.  With  100  maps  and  illus- 
trations. A  Revised  Edition.  8vo,  pp.  691.  Map  and  4 
plates.     New  York,  Harper  £S°  Brothers,  i860. 

Hunting  a  Pass:  A  Sketch  of  Tropical  Adventure.  Atlan- 
tic Monthly,  i860. 

Ancient  Monuments  in  the  United  States.  Vols,  xx, 
xxi,  Harper's  Magazine,      i860. 

Collection  of  Rare  and  Original  Documents  and  Rela- 
tions concerning  the  Discovery  and  Conquest  of  America. 
Chiefly  from  the  Spanish  Archives.  Published  in  the  Origi- 
nal, with  Translations,  Illustrative  Notes,  Maps,  and  Bio- 
graphical Sketches.  No.  i :  Carta  dirijida  al  Rey  de  Espaiia, 
por  el  Licenciado  Dr.  Don  Diego  Garcia  de  Palacio.  1576. 
Spanish  and  English.  4to,  pp.  129.  Map.  New  York, 
C.  B.  Norton,  MDCCCLX. 

Translation  by  Mr.  Squier.     One  hundred  copies  printed. 

Arte  de  Lingua  Quiche,  6  Utlatica;  compuesto  por  U.  M.  R. 
P.  Fray  Bartolome  Auteo  Religioso  Minor  de  N.  S.  Pe  San 
Francisco.  With  an  Essay  on  the  Quichis  by  Mr.  Squier,  in 
MS.     i860. 


BIBLIOGRAPHY  57 

Tropical  Fibres;  their  Production  and  Economic  Extraction. 
8vo,  pp.  64.      16  plates.     New- York,  Scribner  &  Co.,  1861. 
Published  in  England  by  authority  of  the  British  Government 

Frank  Leslie's  Pictorical  History  of  the  War  of  1861-2. 
Edited  by  E.  G.  Squier.  Numbers  I  to  33,  inclusive.  Folio, 
wrappers.     New- York,  186 1-2. 

Is  Cotton  King  ?  Sources  of  Cotton  Supply.  Letter  to  Hon. 
H.  B.  Anthony,  New-York,  January'  25th,  1861. 

Monograph  of  Authors  Who  Have  Written  on  the  Lan- 
guages of  Central  America,  and  Collected  Vocabularies  or 
Composed  Works  in  the  Native  Dialects  of  that  Country. 
4to,  pp.  70.     Albany,  J.  Munsell,  MDCCCLXI. 

This  is  a  brief  account  of  one  hundred  and  ten  authors  who  have 
written  on  the  languages  of  Central  America,  followed  by  a  list 
of  books  and  MSS.  relating  wholly  or  in  part  to  the  historj',  abo- 
rigines, and  antiquities  of  Central  America. 

Among  the  Andes  of  Peru  and  Bolivia.  Vols,  xxxvi, 
xxxvii.  Harper  s  Magazine. 

Quelques  Remarques  sur  la  Geographie  et  les  Monu- 
ments DU  Perou,  par  E.  G.  Squier,  Ancien  Commissaire  des 
fitats-Unis  au  Perou.  Extrait  du  Bulletin  de  la  Societe  de 
Geographie.     8vo,  pp.  28.     Paris,  1868. 

Tongues  from  Tombs;  or.  The  Stories  that  Graves  Tell.  In 
Vols,  xxvii  and  xxviii  of  Frank  Leslie's  Illustrated  News- 
paper.    1868. 

Observations  on  the  Chalchihuitl  of  Mexico  and  Central 
America.     8vo,  pp.  22.     New  York,  1869. 

Introduction  and  Notes  to  a  Translation  of  A.  Morelet's 
Travels  in  Central  America.  New  York,  LeypoUtj  Holt  ^ 
fVilliams,  1 87 1. 

Observations  on  the  Geography  and  Archaeology  of  Peru.  A 
paper  read  before  the  American  Geographical  Society.  8vo, 
pp.  27.     London,  1870. 

The  Primeval  Monuments  of  Peru,  compared  with  those 
in  other  parts  of  the  World.  With  illustrations.  American 
Naturalist.     Salem,  1870. 


58       LETTERS  FROM  PARKMAN  TO  SQUIER 

Great  South-American  Earthquakes  of  1868.  Vol. 
xxxviii,  Harper's  Magazine. 

Honduras,  Descriptive,  Historical,  and  Statistical.  Post  8vo, 
pp.  viii  and  278.  Map.  London,  Triibner  ^  Co.;  New 
York,  Holt  y  Williams,  1870. 

Travels  in  Central  America,  in  regions  unexplored  since  the 
conquest,  by  Chevalier  Morelet ;  notes  by  E.  G.  Squier.  Page 
views.     i2mo,  pp.  430.     New  York,  1871. 

The  Antiquities  of  Peru.  Translation  from  the  Spanish  of 
Don  M.  E.  de  Rivero  and  Juan  Diego  de  Tschudi,  by  Mr, 
Squier,  in  MS. 

American  Antiquities  in  second  edition  of  American  Ency- 
clopedia.    1873. 

Catalogue  of  the  Library  of  E.  G.  Squier.  Edited  by 
Joseph  Sabin.  Sold  at  auction,  April,  1876.  8vo,  pp.  277. 
New  York,  1876. 

Peru  :  Incidents  of  Travel  and  Exploration  in  the  Land  of  the 
Incas.  By  E.  George  Squier,  M.  A.,  F.  S.  A.,  late  U.  S. 
Commissioner  to  Peru,  Author  of  "Nicaragua,"  "Ancient 
Monuments  of  Mississippi  Valley,"  etc.,  etc.  With  illustra- 
tions (frontispiece,  etc.).  8vo,  pp.  599.  New  York,  Harper 
^Brothers,  1877.     London,  Macmillan  &  Company. 

Reprinted  by  Henry  Holt  &  Company  from  the  Harper  plates. 
New  York,  n.  d. 

Traditions  of  the  Algonquins.  Published  in  a  volume 
entitled  "The  Indian  Miscellany,"  covering  Papers  on  the 
History,  Antiquities,  Arts,  Languages,  Religions,  Traditions, 
and  Superstitions  of  the  American  Aborigines.  Edited  by 
W,  W.  Beach.  8vo,  pp.  490.  Illlustrated.  Albany,  New- 
York,  1877. 

Honduras  and  British  Honduras.  By  E.  G.  Squier. 
i6mo,  pp.  39.  Paper  cover.  New  York,  Charles  Scribner's 
Sons,  1880. 


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